Female Combatants In The Battlefield....yay or nay
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2013/01/24 22:18:48
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Posted : Wednesday Jan 23, 2013 15:24:14 EST
WASHINGTON
— Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has lifted the military’s ban on women
serving in combat, a move that will allow women into hundreds of
thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando units, a
senior Pentagon official said Wednesday.
Women currently serve in
a number of combat positions, including piloting warplanes or serving
on ships in combat areas. Since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq, 292,000 women have served in those combat zones out of a total of
almost 2.5 million, Pentagon records show. In both wars, 152 women have
died from combat or noncombat causes, records show, and 958 have been
wounded in action.
Based on your experience, wisdom, knowledge, beliefs do you feel women should serve EQUALLY alongside men?
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SteveMarine- JLA 2013/01/24 22:23:47ABSOLUTELY (NOT)...no way, no how
+17Ok... ur behind enemy lines... ur captured.. just you "man" and ur last living fire team memeber...is a woman...the enemy has you moved to a detention area.. the torture begins.. first they start with ur weaker female partner...starting off with rape.. they rape her over and over...they make you watch as she screams in pain and agony... what do you do? Watch them kill her? Or talk? Its a little different with women then it is with a man.. torture can affect people in different ways.. do you really wanna see what they will do with a woman prisoner?
It's not about equality it's about our soldiers lives....those standards are there for a reason....because more often then not they have to do those things. If you lower the standards to suit the lowest ability then you are weakening our armed forces.
Too bad our politicians have ZERO common sense, both parties. Need to vote them all out as they come up for re-election & replace them with "honorable" people who understand THEY work for us, the Taxpayers. The current crap in Washington think WE work for them. We put them in office, we can put them out.
2. Men inherently try to "protect" women. This natural instinct could get them killed in combat.
3. If you think soldiers have Post Traumatic Syndrome now, wait until they witness WOMEN getting their heads blown half off by enemy fire?
4. What about the ones that are like my sister: in pain, cramped up & totally useless for 5 days a month?
No, No and No!
I know why I joined the military. To get out of NY and a bad home life. That's why I joined.
Why I stayed was ... family.
A more functional family than I had growing up. I would have and did follow my military family to some ugly parts of the world. No. I was not in combat. But it didn't stop a bunch of ugly things from happening. From terrorists to riots and being the object of a few less than lovely episodes from communists in Europe in the early 80's, just for wearing a US uniform.
Menstrual cramps never had a thing to do with me doing my job.
My boot camp company along with our sister company, were the first companies that went through the same 'boot camp' as the boys.
Could I lift what the men did? No.
Could I shoot? Yes.
Could I run? Yes.
I didn't have to do humps - being a sailor and an Airdale to boot... But I could carry any ARC whatever black box necessary and them things weren't light.
I went to bat for the folks that worked for me and expected the same from my superiors.
I don't expect female POW's would suffer any more than any other woman that has been gang raped repeatedly. Or beaten and raped by an insane husband. Women have always been raped and murdered and preyed upon by men. Enemy or friend or family.
I would posi...
I know why I joined the military. To get out of NY and a bad home life. That's why I joined.
Why I stayed was ... family.
A more functional family than I had growing up. I would have and did follow my military family to some ugly parts of the world. No. I was not in combat. But it didn't stop a bunch of ugly things from happening. From terrorists to riots and being the object of a few less than lovely episodes from communists in Europe in the early 80's, just for wearing a US uniform.
Menstrual cramps never had a thing to do with me doing my job.
My boot camp company along with our sister company, were the first companies that went through the same 'boot camp' as the boys.
Could I lift what the men did? No.
Could I shoot? Yes.
Could I run? Yes.
I didn't have to do humps - being a sailor and an Airdale to boot... But I could carry any ARC whatever black box necessary and them things weren't light.
I went to bat for the folks that worked for me and expected the same from my superiors.
I don't expect female POW's would suffer any more than any other woman that has been gang raped repeatedly. Or beaten and raped by an insane husband. Women have always been raped and murdered and preyed upon by men. Enemy or friend or family.
I would posit that the stresses upon men witnessing a female military woman being raped would indeed have some impotence issues and well as PTSD issues. As far as the women and what we've dealt with - it's the same crap we've always (as our sex has) dealt with. In most of the world, today, women are still without rights to determine her own destinies. I may add, esp in the Muslim world.
This isn't a place to play PC politics. Soon we will hear of women suing because they claim they unfairly washed out, claiming they did as well as the men but failed based on her gender and not ability. Our forces are not a platform for social experimentation. It's obvious there's a gender difference and I think its a waste of time and resources when its compared to the numbers of trainees that actually make it.
apparently you forgot what u wrote......your inuendo was pretty clear - physical attraction and likelihood of problems arising from that issue.....admit you screwed up and leave well enough alone.....grace....in other words don't prove your age...
With or without cramps and a heavy menstrual flow she still cannot carry 80 lbs of gear.
She cannot lift a wounded soldier much less carry him.
She would not be serving her country she would be burdening the male soldiers.
A child can pull a trigger but no woman can do what a man does.
Notice there are never any women to carry furniture and other heavy items to wherever?
Wake up and admit women are not built like men.
I admire Panetta for forcing him to prove to these men wannabes that women were not made for what men only can do.
Battlefields aren't good environments to conduct social experiments!